Safety Culture: From Theory to Practice
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Andreza Araújo
Safety Culture Expert | Senior EHS Executive
Andreza Araújo is a safety culture expert and senior EHS executive with more than 25 years of experience in environment, health and safety. She is a Civil Engineer and Occupational Safety Engineer from Unicamp, holds a Master's degree in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva, and completed sustainability studies at IMD Switzerland.
Andreza has served in Global Head of EHS roles in Fortune 500 environments, leading cultural transformation programs across multinational operations. She has represented Brazil as a speaker at the United Nations in Paris and has spoken at the International Labour Organization in Turin.
She is the author of more than 16 books on safety culture in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German. Her work has earned more than 10 EHS awards, including two recognitions from Indra Nooyi, former PepsiCo CEO.
Formal credentials
- Civil & Safety Engineer (Unicamp)
- M.A. Environmental Diplomacy (University of Geneva)
- Sustainability Cert (IMD Switzerland)
- People Management & Coaching (Ohio University)
- UN Paris speaker representative for Brazil
- ILO Turin speaker
- LinkedIn Top Voice
- Indra Nooyi PepsiCo CEO recognition (2x)
Selected books
Cultura de Segurança
Andreza Araújo
Liderança Antifrágil
Andreza Araújo
A Ilusão da Conformidade
Andreza Araújo
Sorte ou Capacidade
Andreza Araújo
Muito Além do Zero
Andreza Araújo
Antifragile Leadership
Andreza Araújo
Podcasts she hosts
Headline Podcast in English
Host and editorial lead of the English-language podcast, with conversations on safety leadership, EHS and organizational culture.
Headline Podcast in Portuguese
Host of the Portuguese-language podcast, with interviews and conversations on safety culture and EHS.
O Conselho de Segurança
Host of this Portuguese spin-off, with debates and guidance on safety leadership and culture.
Articles by this author
437 articles psychological-safety
Manager Succession and Psychological Safety: 7 Handover Risks Boards Miss
Manager succession can reset psychological safety in weeks when boards track structure but ignore how dissent, bad news, and weak signals move through the new leader.
safety-culture
Safety Training Is Not the Answer: 7 Culture Tests
Safety training works only when leaders change the work system, reinforce behavior in the field, and stop using classes as default corrective action.
incident-investigation
Farmington Mine Disaster: 7 Signals Leaders Still Miss
The Farmington Mine Disaster shows why fatal risk is rarely invisible, even when weak signals are fragmented across maintenance, ventilation and leadership decisions.
safe-behavior
Line of Fire: 7 Behavior Traps Supervisors Should Catch
Line-of-fire exposure is rarely a knowledge gap alone. Supervisors need to catch the behavioral traps that place people in the energy path.
psychological-safety
Daily Safety Meeting: 4 Questions That Make Dissent Usable
Use four daily safety meeting questions to turn silence, weak signals, and operational doubt into decisions leaders can act on before risk matures.
psychosocial-risks
HSE Management Standards: 6 Stress Tests for Leaders
Use the HSE Management Standards to test whether work-related stress controls are built into work design or left as awareness messaging.
safety-culture
Safety Culture Diagnosis: 7 Signs Surveys Miss Risk
A safety culture diagnosis is useful only when it finds the gap between declared values and operational behavior under pressure.
safe-behavior
Peer Check: 7 Signals It Will Catch Critical Errors
A peer check is not a friendly glance before work starts. It is a behavioral control for critical steps where one missed action can change the outcome of the job.
incident-investigation
Serious Incident Potential: 7 Classification Traps Investigators Miss
Serious Incident Potential classification helps investigation teams separate low-harm events from events that nearly exposed the organization to fatal or life-altering consequences.
safety-leadership
Escalation Discipline: 7 Leadership Signals That Prevent Silent Risk
Escalation discipline is the leadership control that decides whether weak signals, dissent, overdue actions, and fatal-risk concerns reach the people who can change the system.
